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...This vision came alive Szczecin, where many scholars of various nationalities (American, Polish, English, Japanese, Turkish, Spanish, to name a few) pored over the writings of Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad. It was a unique occasion for academics to make "both ends meet," those of theory and of practice, since theoretical divagations were aired among breath-taking windjammers of thought.
On our first day (August 4) we participated in the official opening of the conference Hearts of Darkness aboard a Polish sailing ship Dar Mlodziezy (The Gift of the Youth). In a convivial atmosphere on the lower and higher decks, Melvilleans and Conradians admired Szczecin's quay alongside which such beauties as Cuauhtemoc, Kruzensztern, Lord Nelson, and Alexander yon Humboldt were moored. Dar Mlodziezy neighbored with a state-of-the-art Lord Nelson, designed to facilitate the disabled in their maritime adventures; on the other side it rubbed shoulders, or rather decks, with a true Nestor of seafaring, the Kruzensztern, which at the beginning of the twentieth century sailed from Hamburg to Chile for a cargo of saltpetre and to Australia for corn.
The Tall Ships' Races were inaugurated more than a half century ago when an Englishman, Bernard Morgan, a lawyer and a devoted sailor, came up with the idea of organizing a regatta of the world's largest sailing ships. He wanted to save from oblivion the "winged birds of the ocean" that were pushed out of the trade routes by steam liners. Those sailing vessels brought thousands of tons of tea and other delicacies for the European landlubbers. The...
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